Storyline
The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer's head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.
Directors
Cast
Buddy Joe Hooker, Antoni Corone, Thomas Rosales, Jr., Beth Waugh, Chad Randall, Rick Shuster, Ramón Rodríguez, Michael Keaton, E. Roger Mitchell, Mike Massa, Nick Chinlund, Dakota Johnson, Imogen Poots, Tierre Turner, Dominic Cooper, Tim Gilbert, John Meier, Aaron Paul, Michael Rose, Rami Malek, Stevie Ray Dallimore, Charles Black, Brian L. Keaulana, Carmela Zumbado, Frank Brennan, Kanin Howell, Logan Holladay, Han Soto, Jill Jane Clements, Scott Mescudi, Harrison Gilbertson, Sir Maejor, Libby Blanton, Alan Pflueger, Jalil Jay Lynch, Adora Dei, Rich Rutherford, Tony Brakohiapa, Brent Fletcher, Paul Dallenbach, Tara Jones, Kerry Gatins, Michael C. Smith, Jacki Hill, Chloe Warren, Chelsea Small
Trailer
Reviews
60
Paul plays the part with the flinty, tightly wound charisma of a small man who makes up in moxie what he lacks in stature. There’s something of the young James Cagney in him, and he’s by far the best thing Need for Speed has going for it.
50
A moderately popular racing series that the powers that be have tried to turn into a turbo-boosted stunt-car extravaganza of the same make and model as the "Fast & Furious" franchise.
50
The cast doesn’t have the sassy swagger of the “Fast & Furious” crew. Paul, surrounded by co-stars of the same modest height, isn’t particularly charismatic in this setting. He’s not a natural “quiet tough guy.” But the actors are second bananas here — to the Koenigsegg Ageras, Saleens and Shelby Mustang that feed America’s Need for Speed, on screen and off. And the cars deliver.
40
The cars are hot, the action is decent, but the characters and plot need a serious tune-up.
40
Need For Speed is a flat, sexless movie that seems not to understand why people like to sit in the driver’s seat and rev that big engine: Because of the transgressive rumble in your nethers.
